Simultaneous first-party posting is okay, of course. The main difficulty is the inclusion of complete articles without permission, where they exceed what would be considered "fair use". Having seen many of the discussions about GEnie/Compuserve et. al. on the net regarding feeds in or out, there does seem to be a real possibility of these getting annoyed. It wasn't so much the duplicate messages, but the whole-scale copying of many messages without permission. This is no different from my policies regarding redistribution of the FML, or what the majority of people more-or-less expect from USENET. Further, with this latest virus thing, most of it seemed rather panicky, disjointed, and contradictory. I'd prefer either official notices (like Dr. Kawasaki's or Chip's post of the AFA one) with permission, or careful synopsis of other messages. I'd like to be timely, but I also don't want to rumour- or scare-monger. Remember Fara's comments about BBSes? The FML isn't a tabloid. But it was starting to look like a british-style scandal rag for a while... And Chip reinforced the copyright issues. So I'm going to try to guide things to a better S/N ratio. See next item. [Posted in FML issue 0453]